[dm-devel] [PATCH] block: fix a crash when bio_for_each_folio_all iterates over an empty bio

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka at redhat.com
Mon Apr 17 19:11:57 UTC 2023


If we use bio_for_each_folio_all on an empty bio, it will access the first
bio vector unconditionally (it is uninitialized) and it may crash
depending on the uninitialized data.

This patch fixes it by checking the parameter "i" against "bio->bi_vcnt"
and returning NULL fi->folio if it is out of range.

The patch also drops the test "if (fi->_i + 1 < bio->bi_vcnt)" from
bio_next_folio because the same condition is already being checked in
bio_first_folio.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>

---
 include/linux/bio.h |   24 +++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/bio.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/bio.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -279,15 +279,19 @@ struct folio_iter {
 static inline void bio_first_folio(struct folio_iter *fi, struct bio *bio,
 				   int i)
 {
-	struct bio_vec *bvec = bio_first_bvec_all(bio) + i;
+	if (i < bio->bi_vcnt) {
+		struct bio_vec *bvec = bio_first_bvec_all(bio) + i;
 
-	fi->folio = page_folio(bvec->bv_page);
-	fi->offset = bvec->bv_offset +
-			PAGE_SIZE * (bvec->bv_page - &fi->folio->page);
-	fi->_seg_count = bvec->bv_len;
-	fi->length = min(folio_size(fi->folio) - fi->offset, fi->_seg_count);
-	fi->_next = folio_next(fi->folio);
-	fi->_i = i;
+		fi->folio = page_folio(bvec->bv_page);
+		fi->offset = bvec->bv_offset +
+				PAGE_SIZE * (bvec->bv_page - &fi->folio->page);
+		fi->_seg_count = bvec->bv_len;
+		fi->length = min(folio_size(fi->folio) - fi->offset, fi->_seg_count);
+		fi->_next = folio_next(fi->folio);
+		fi->_i = i;
+	} else {
+		fi->folio = NULL;
+	}
 }
 
 static inline void bio_next_folio(struct folio_iter *fi, struct bio *bio)
@@ -298,10 +302,8 @@ static inline void bio_next_folio(struct
 		fi->offset = 0;
 		fi->length = min(folio_size(fi->folio), fi->_seg_count);
 		fi->_next = folio_next(fi->folio);
-	} else if (fi->_i + 1 < bio->bi_vcnt) {
-		bio_first_folio(fi, bio, fi->_i + 1);
 	} else {
-		fi->folio = NULL;
+		bio_first_folio(fi, bio, fi->_i + 1);
 	}
 }
 


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